The author (1981) put an interpretation of the 1883 Krakatau eruption from the standpoint of geophysics. In the present paper, mainly the generation of the tsunami in the eruption will be discussed to supplement the previous interpretation.
Geology, the science of the earth, is comparativly young but despite its youth it already has done much to stimulaste the stinking the thinking of mankind. Man always has been interested in the earth on which he lives and he long has speculated about places and region beyond the horizon.